The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-26

mortal but not instantaneously eata
wounds He 10 limited to two umDire,
week, and if he kills more than that
number is liable to two dollars fine for
each offense.
The rules for the umpire have been
greatly improved. He is now clad in
a convict's uniform without stripes. yet
easily distinguishable, and is conven-
iently placed SO as to be within range
of projectile thrown from any part Of
the grand-stand. and opportunity is af-
forded for mobbing him at any stage Of
the game when the spectators feel it
necessary to relieve their feelings.
Eggs, vegetables and cream cakes, all
useful as reminders to tke umpire that
the eyes of the community are upon
him, are sold az low rates at convenient
stands, and have been found to be quite
as ornamental to him as the bricks,
fence pickets and other tokens allowed
by the old rules.
To facilitate the umpire i'm making q
wrong decision, and thus adding to the
popular interest and creating demand
for eggs and produce, the League man.
ayers have ordered dust to be strewn
nine inches deep in the vicinity of
bases. The runner is expected, when
within twenty feet of his destination, to
drop at full length, skate the rest of the
way on his nose and envelop all subse-
quent proceedings in an impenetrable
cloud. The decision of the umpire is
thus laid open to active debate. and
any overt act on the part of the injured
faction is made clearly justifable.
Allowing the catcher to insert his
head in rat-trap and wear mattress
over his chess is a measure of econo-
my which the League managers will
live to regret. One Of the chief merits
of the old game was the delightful fire.
quency with which catchers were mas
sacred. This loss is partly atoned for
by the rule that the umpire must stand
Immediately behind the catcher. where,
having no life-preserver, he may be
neatly slain any time the latter may
choose to step adroitly to one side.
Trenor said Monday that if 1 wished
to gather points On the game / should
sit Immediately behind the catcher,
and kindly offered to give me his ticket.
which called for precisely that place on
the grand-stand, in exchange for mine.
which called for seat on the extreme
left. / did not want to deprive him of
it, but he begged me with tears in his
cyes-said he had often seen the game
from there, and wouldn't have me
miss it for the world. so 1 took the
ticket and thanked him, and he wrung
my hand and thanked me. / noticed
L sat quite alone in that desirable
place, and supposed that the place was
too high for most persons. / soon no
ticed something else, which was that
about every third ball whizzed over nv
head and pulverized the strong TIM
bers beyond. Then l remarked I was
being watched with that intense inter-
est with which spectators watch a
bull's-eye in shooting match. and the
next minute / fancied j heard q dull
thud, and following this / observed
that was lying down in the space be-
tween the seventh and eighth rows.
with strange and not altogether de-
sirable sensation attached to my right
eye. Then / went home.
1 have no doubt that baseball is a
scientific and improving pastime, and
my family physician, who has just left
directions with the nurse how to tide
me over the crisis, which is expected
to occur tonight, says it has been
worth ten thousand dollars q year to
him since he established his office near
the Polo Grounds. But 1 have preju-
dices which are groundless. perhaps,
but deep-rooted and sincere. Next
time feel my constitution needs tom
ing up 1 shall 60 out into the wilds of
New Jersey and wrestle with locomo-
tive, and next time I meet Trenor one
of us will 60 to the morgue.-Henry
Gnu Carleton in ~ r World.